Chapter 709

After several months of hustle and bustle, the 1995 awards season finally came to an end with the arrival of the 67th Academy Awards.

Under the influence of Eric's 'butterfly', this year's Oscars have been very different from their previous lives. "Forrest Gump", which is praised by Americans as a landscape painting of modern history, has been postponed, "Pulp Fiction", the benchmark work of solo films, has been advanced, and "The Shawshank Redemption", the biggest jewel in Oscar history, has not yet been filmed.

Despite all the changes, this year's Oscars are no less concerned than any before, "Saving Private Ryan" and "Braveheart" duels have been hyped by the media for months, last year's boiling Victoria's Secret show five angel spokespersons will take the stage at the same time to present awards, a certain little man who always wears big-rimmed glasses and looks chattering looks like a little man has experienced the scandal of a few years ago and once again won a "Bullet Across Broadway" Sweeping through the major nominations, of course, people will definitely not attend.

The most important thing is that this Oscar is also very likely to produce the first best female director in the history of the Oscars.

March 27, 5 p.m., Auditorium of the Holy Citizen, Los Angeles.

ABC TV's live red carpet broadcast started on time.

Outside the Sacred Civic Auditorium, fans who were lucky enough to get seats on both sides of the red carpet excitedly watched the growing number of stars on the red carpet, cheering up in anticipation of their support.

Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman, John Travolta, Tom Cruise, Helen Mirren, Susan Sarandon, Jodie Foster, Winona Red......

Whenever a familiar ground hole appears on the red carpet, it can cause bursts of cheers.

A courtesy car slowly stopped at the end of the red carpet, and it was Catherine's first time attending the Oscars. Before "Saving Private Ryan", although films such as "Shocking Point" and "Thunderbolt Blue Angel" had attracted her attention in the industry, she had not received any decent nominations because the topics discussed in several films were not pleasant.

The limousine is arranged by the brokerage company. Lengthening Lincoln, she was the only one sitting in the carriage, looking a little empty, and casually glanced at the crowd of people outside the car window, and suddenly became nervous.

She's always been uncomfortable with this kind of public.

The door was pulled open, and Catherine hesitated for a moment. Still stepped out of the carriage, stepped on the red carpet, and clenched the handbag tightly in his hand.

In the end, she chose the light gray silk dress given to her by Eric, with an irregular heart pattern embroidered on the chest, the waist was tied up, and the hem was very long, but it was completely supported by her tall figure, giving people a stunning feeling of legs from the waist down.

Despite a brief moment of confusion, she habitually straightened her back. On the surface, I can't see the panic in my heart, but it gives people a sense of nobility of the goddess's arrival, this completely inside-out aura makes the surrounding audience appear silent for a short time, and the first reaction in most people's hearts is basically which actress is this?

It wasn't until someone shouted 'Catherine' that everyone reacted suddenly and excitedly responded.

"Catherine, Catherine. Catherine ......"

The frantically flickering magnesium lights made her raise her hand to cover her eyes. But she soon realized that there was something wrong with this gesture, and halfway through it turned into a gentle wave towards the crowd, with a shy smile on her face, which made the atmosphere even more frenetic, and she even heard someone shouting 'Catherine, I love you.' Marry me', uh, still a girl.

The agent standing on the outside of the red carpet gestured to her several times before she remembered to walk forward.

The lone one.

Inexplicably he missed the little guy a little, even though he scared her enough that night. However, if there was such a person by his side now and could hold his arm, maybe he wouldn't be so nervous and at a loss. Strong men always give people a sense of security, and she used to feel that she didn't need such ridiculous things, but now, surrounded by the crowd, she suddenly realized that perhaps, she still needs to be so ...... A little bit.

In a mess, like a puppet, he completely followed the agent's arrangement, walked across the red carpet, entered the crowd, and joined the crew of "Saving Private Ryan", and finally relaxed. But he was quickly pulled out by his agent and led to the auditorium, saying that he wanted to introduce an interview with ABC TV.

The content of the interview has been explained to her by the agent before.

But when the black hostess complimented her dress on how beautiful it was and asked which brand it was, she still couldn't answer.

A shadow jumped out again.

I heard that he went to the party at Universal two days ago to make trouble, as if he wanted to grab some movie rights, and he was really able to toss.

I also heard that he was messing with those women again.

Ay.

Although she tried her best to make the sigh in her heart more like a big sister who was worried about her younger brother, she herself couldn't erase some emotions.

It's just that she doesn't know that kind of emotion is called resentment.

Since he is not participating in the Oscars, I don't know what he will be doing now.

……

Early in the morning, sending the five women out of Sharp Corner Manor, Eric hurried to the Burbank Firefly headquarters.

Katzenberg has always been very productive, and although the first two days were weekends, by the time Eric arrived, he had already come up with a rough plan for working with Hasbro.

Eric didn't know much about peripheral operations, so he could only patiently listen to Katzenberg and the head of the brand operations department explain and discuss it all morning.

At lunch, Eric and Katzenberg ate together and discussed the details of the preparation of several films.

During this time, Eric briefly talked about the idea of "American Top Model", and Katzenberg got angry again, grabbed Eric, wiped all the ideas in his head, and strongly recommended that "American Top Model" be placed on the lifetime TV station owned by the AE television network.

AE Television Network used to be a sub-television network of ABC Group, which was now shared by Firefly Group and Hearst Group, with neither party holding a controlling stake, but each holding 50% of the shares. The small television network mainly includes several basic cable stations, such as the History Channel, the Crime and Psychology Channel, and the Lifetime Women's Channel.

The so-called basic cable stations, compared with HBO and Showtime, mean that viewers only need to pay cable TV access fees to cable operators such as Comcast and Time Warner. You can watch the program. Of course, the types of TV stations in different cable TV packages are also different. Disney, ESPN and other Firefly's other cable TV stations are also basic cable stations.

Normally, the cable TV packages subscribed by users include dozens or hundreds of basic cable stations, so even the number of unpopular channels under AE TV has between 30 million and 90 million users. But in fact, because of the need to share audience resources with dozens or hundreds of basic cable stations in the package, even if the number of users is the same, but in fact, the ratings are very different, Katzenberg's "American Supermodel Contest" broadcast platform Lifetime is this kind of thing, specifically for female viewers under the age of 35, more targeted than MTV, WB or UPN These TV stations, but if MTV these TV stations are considered second-tier, Lifetime can only be regarded as third-tier TV stations. As you can imagine, the ratings are even more bleak.

Eric didn't think of putting "America's Top Model Contest" on a little-known small TV like Lifetime, well, albeit as a platform in his own hands. But just like in the previous life, Warner would not put "Friends" on its own WB TV station, but sold it to NBC, "America's Top Model Contest" in Lifetime could not fully reflect its value.

But Katzenberg's thinking is different from Eric's, and Lifetime really isn't much now. But like a seedling, if you don't water it don't fertilize. It will never grow.

After lunch, the workaholic couldn't wait to connect with the director of AE TV in New York, and a group of people held a conference call for an entire afternoon to discuss how to further develop the lifetime in their hands, and these are all professionals in the television industry, therefore. In just a few hours, a detailed development strategy and marketing plan were discussed.

The main strategy was to build Lifetime into a reality TV station that airs primarily women, inspired by the success of last year's "Survivor."

Lifetime has mainly played low-budget chick movies, women's TV series, and the like. And it's not too large-scale, the program mainly relies on buying the second or third round of broadcast rights of popular programs from large TV stations, and there are very few self-made programs, and the scale of the column is even ranked behind the history channel and the crime heart channel of the AE TV network. However, it is also in response to the sentence that the ship is a good turn, and since the further development strategy has been finalized, of course, it is just to do it.

First of all, let's leave "American Top Model Contest" first.

Forehead.

Pit boss, yes.

Although Eric complained a little, he was not lacking in adventurous spirit, and since everyone had been provoked by Katzenberg in just one afternoon, he didn't mind giving it a go, so he agreed.

After all, the cost of "America's Top Model Contest" is indeed very low, and the format of the show is not complicated.

In fact, most of the reality shows in North America later had a unified 'ancestor', "Survivor". In Eric's sporadic memory, "American Top Model Contest" is basically a model version of "Survivor", in which the elimination mechanism, the open and secret tears of the contestants, and even the tears that come to each episode, are almost all leftovers of "Survivor".

But there is no way, American audiences love to watch this, otherwise "Survivor" would not have created such unnatural ratings.

Then, Katzenberg's next move made Eric feel that this guy's annual salary of tens of millions of dollars a year was really not in vain.

Not only did he immediately ask the director of AE TV to come to Los Angeles tomorrow to discuss the matter in more detail, but he also pulled the management of Firefly's TV program production department over to discuss the production details of "America's Top Model Contest" with Eric on the spot.

By the time all this was almost done, it was eight o'clock in the evening, eight o'clock, eight o'clock......

It seems that he complained a few days ago, anyway, some resentment will not fall on him, but retribution comes so fast, in just a few days, he has become a resentment maker.

However, as a boss, Eric certainly can't say to his employees, hey, let's not fight so hard, let's leave work early.

So I had to accompany it until the beginning of the lanterns.

Almost halfway through the Oscars, Eric and Katzenberg and others came out of the conference room and headed straight for the headquarters cafeteria.

Although after the Oscars, I still have to go to the party, but the hungry Eric is absolutely impossible to last until that time, high-intensity work, once it is over, most people's first reaction is usually one word, hungry.

After ordering dinner, everyone knew what day it was, and immediately turned on the TV in the restaurant.

The sound came out of the TV, which happened to be the awarding stage of the best original screenplay.

"Saving Private Ryan" and "Braveheart" were both nominated for Best Original Screenplay, but Eric had already won this award once, and he also knew the urine nature of the Oscar, and with his age, it was impossible to give him another statuette so soon, so after getting a nomination, he completely gave up on the PR of this award.

After listening to the award presenters for a while, Eric began to introduce the nominations for the best original screenplay, and Eric was a little absent-minded, but he quickly cheered up.

Because he heard a familiar name.

Of course, it's not "Braveheart", it's not "Saving Private Ryan", it's not "Bullets Across Broadway" with a big frame and a small man, well, "Four Weddings and a Funeral" is not, although Eric has a very deep memory of the heroine in this film, counting her thirty-three men one by one, but he didn't pay attention to the director of this film.

What lifted his spirits was a film called "Angel of Sins".

The film has two screenwriters, one named Fran Wales, a soy sauce character, so you don't need to pay attention. The other one was Peter Jackson.

Moreover, the two heroines in this film also made Eric very interested, Fatty Wen withstood the strong butterfly effect and continued to enter Hollywood strongly, while the other heroine was also an actress who was deeply impressed by Eric in his previous life, Melanie Linsky, the eccentric stalker next door in "Two and a Half Men", Rose. (To be continued.) )